Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them, for they are very numerous.